HansHunt

Alternate Member, State Representative

Alternate Member, State of Wyoming, Royalty Policy Committee

Hans Hunt is an alternate member of the Department of Interior’s Royalty Policy Committee, and as a member of this committee advises Secretary Zinke “on policy and strategies to improve management of the multi-billion dollar, federal and American Indian mineral revenue program.”

Hans Hunt is a Wyoming State Representative and “a fourth generation rancher on his family ranch near Newcastle, Wyoming.” Hunt was first elected to the Wyoming House in 2010 when he was still in college, and at the time was the youngest member of the legislature. From 2015 to 2016, he was the House Majority Whip. He currently serves as Chairman of the House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, Chairman of the Select Water Committee, and as a member of the House Education Committee. In November 2016, Hunt was chosen to work on then President-Elect Trump’s Agricultural Advisory Committee.

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When a Wyoming resident emailed Hans Hunt expressing her concerns with guns in schools and with the “profoundly serious dangers of fracking,” Hunt responded that the alleged dangers of fracking were not “‘scientifically founded or proved'” and that if she didn’t “‘like the political atmosphere of Wyoming'” she should “‘leave.'”

In 2013, Cheyenne minister Audette Fulbright “sent emails to all legislators stating her opposition to House Bill 105,” a bill to allow “people with concealed carry permits to carry guns at schools.” In her email, Fulbright also expressed her concern about the “‘profoundly serious dangers of fracking'” that were taking place in Wyoming.

Hans Hunt responded to Fulbright: “‘I’ll be blunt. If you don’t like the political atmosphere of Wyoming, then by all means, leave. We, who have been here a very long time (I am proudly 4th generation) are quite proud of our independent heritage.'”

He continued, “‘As to your comments on fracking, I would point out that you’re basing your statement on ‘dangers’ that have not been scientifically founded or proved as of yet.'” Hunt said it “‘offend[ed]'” him “‘to no end when liberal out-of-staters such as [Fulbright] move into Wyoming, trying to get away from where they came from, and then pompously demand that Wyoming conform to their way of thinking.'” [Kyle Roerink, “Go Wyo or get out: Lawmaker and minister have cyber clash,” Casper Star-Tribune, 02/08/13]

Hans Hunt has voted for land transfer legislation.

In 2013, Hans Hunt voted for HB 228, the Transfer of Federal Lands Study, legislation to “require the state attorney general to study ‘possible legal recourses available to compel the federal government to relinquish ownership and management of specified federal lands in Wyoming,’ and [to] establish a task force focused on the land transfer.” [Vote on HB0228, Wyoming Legislature, 02/05/13, Jessica Goad and Tom Kenworthy, “State Efforts to ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands,” Center for American Progress, 03/11/13]